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WALKER &'WEED.

Wheel Cultivator.

No. 70,381. f Patented Oct. 29, 1867 Inventor; Witnesses: wag W 14 7 ZWW P 5 V a w gfi M gotten tetra ileum ffine,

ELISHA WALKER AND A. M. WEED, OF LA FORTE, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 70,381, dated October 29, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, ELISHA WALKER and A. M. WEED, of La Porte, in thecounty of La Porto, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Cultivators; and we do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which--Figure 1 is a perspective view, and

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Our improvements relate to that class of cultivators in which theploughs are suspended upon wheels, and v the points on which we havemade our improvements on former machines .will appear from the claimshereinafter to be set forth.

In the drawings, A A are the wheels, attached to the beam 13 through themetallic hangers G to which the spindles are attached. The tongue D isfastened to the beam B, (which is the.axle,) and is secured by acircular brace, E, attached to it and the axle. F is a metallicdouble-tree, attached'uuderneath the tongue, with hooks on each end tosecure the whifi'le-trees. Sockets are formed in the double-tree at F,through which bolts pass to secure therein the end of the plough-beams GG. The beams support the standards and shovel-ploughs G, and swingfreely both horizontally and vertically within the sockets F, beingcontrolled by the ploughman holding the handles G The near end of thebeams G is supported adjust-ably by chains H, and when the cultivator isbeing moved, while not in use, they may be suspended upon hooks I sothat the ploughs shall be above the ground. K is the drivers seat,supported upon two parallel bars K, which, resting upon-the axle B,extend forward along each side of the tongue, and are adjustably held bynotches K, which catch upon a metallic strap over the tongue, andprojecting on each side thereof, immediately behind the point where thebrace E is attached to the tongue. As the seat may be fixed nearer orfurther from the axle, the weight of the driver may always be made tocounterbalance that of the tongue. The hooked foot-pieces L on theploughbeams G will enable the driver to regulate the movement of theploughs in passing through the rows of corn.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent,is

11 The mode of counterbalancing the weight of the tongue by that ofthedriver by means of the seat K resting upon the bars K adjustably securedto the tongue, and supported upon the axle, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the tongue 1), double-tree F, with sockets F andbeams G, respectively constructed and arranged substantially as setforth. a

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELISI-IA WALKER,

A. M. WEED.

Witnesses:

RoB'r. A. HEWs, Jes. A. Haws.

